>>>Hi Al,
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>>>Attached please find the name of the drive and its driver. I have no idea what can/should I change here. See also - http://forum.lessthandot.com/viewtopic.php?p=35587#p35587
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>>>perhaps this problem is not recoverable :(
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>>Last attempt to attach this image.
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>What on earth are you using to create the image? Two of them report size 7398x5216 pixels, the other two 2308x2300 pixels. If you don't have

I don't know why it became so big - I simply used Ctrl + Print-Screen and then pasted to Paint. Only when I manually changed attributes to 32*32 it became managable.

dedicated screen-capture software, just press PrtSc (to get the whole desktop) or Alt-PrtSc (to get just the window with focus), fire up Paint, Ctrl-V to paste, then edit as required. I usually find best results saving to .PNG but that's not supported here.
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>Do you have answers for my other questions?
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>Have you Googled your drive make/model?

No, I haven't yet Googled it and I don't know what to answer on your questions - that's why I attached an image of my drive name and its drivers.

The search results are not optimistical :(

http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-93476-optiarc-dvd-rw-ad-7560-dvds-work-cds-dont

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f86/optiarc-7203s-does-not-recognize-dvd-r-dl-media-258268/